Hrair Sarkissian’s public execution sites in Syria at Tate Modern. Conceptually similar to Deborah Luster.
The blue ceiling (not red) in a room full of terrific Egglestons at the Tate Modern.
Made a pilgrimage to Lacock to see where WH Fox Talbot made his first photos. Paper negatives from the museum.
Bauhaus-style all over pattern from 1930s British industry. Maurice Broomfield at the V&A.
Robert Brownjohn’s 1961 typology of London street typography. Part of a well edited photo room at the V&A.
So small and simple: one of William Henry Fox Talbot’s wooden cameras, circa 1836. At the Science Museum London.
Impressive pole-to-pole geographic scope in Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis exhibit at the Natural History Museum (London). Tactile, high contrast prints.
Hexagon shaped collage elements interrupt a reclining figure. Vivienne Griffin in the Desire show at Yancey Richardson.
The matching forms of arched nudes and railroad tracks. 1970s era Carolee Schneemann at Carolina Nitsch.
The unusual angle of a man being dragged by his shoes. Bruce Davidson’s Civil Rights photographs at Howard Greenberg Gallery.
Weeds and starry skies instead of leaves and river refractions. Susan Derges in the summer group show at Danziger.
A surreal, solitary fish-watching session. Burk Uzzle in the summer group show at Laurence Miller Gallery.
Direct, vulnerable B/W portraits of swimsuited groups/families and interior nudes. Nikolay Bakharev at Julie Saul Gallery.
Fluttering cut paper leaves fall from a flat image surface of cherry blossoms. Jim Hodges at FLAG Art Foundation.
Gorgeous textures in this Leon Levinstein print, especially the woven hat. In the Staff Picks show at Howard Greenberg.
A seductively elegant Matthew Pillsbury bar scene in the drinking show at Sasha Wolf.
A sinuous sliced landscape in multiple overlapped layers. Sadie Wechsler in the Yale MFA show at Aperture Gallery.
A still life of parallel textures: brick/concrete and rebar/cherry stem/chain link. Marina Pinsky at Scaramouche Gallery.
Erica Baum’s geometric, almost narrative, dog-eared book pages in the Chick Lit group show at Tracy Williams.
A corner pyramid of teenage kissers. Ed Templeton in the Folklore group show at Joshua Liner Gallery.
